Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Between the Bridge and the River | 2006 | Craig Ferguson | Buy |
Between the Bridge and the River was published in 2006, while Ferguson was in the middle of his Late Late Show run, and drew on his experience as a Scottish immigrant navigating American life in heightened comic form. The novel follows two friends from the same Scottish town whose paths diverge and then converge again across an American landscape populated with unexpected figures.
The book’s structure is episodic and digressive, more interested in comic set pieces and satirical observations about American culture and religion than in conventional plot. Ferguson brings the same instinct for timing and provocation to the writing that his television audience recognized from his monologues, and the novel functions as an extended performance in prose.